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Microsoft Mulls Xbox-PC Connection
News Sean Badding, an analyst with the Carmel Group, a research firm, said Microsoft is likely to bide its time before adding any nongame functions to the Xbox. Analysts said they were not familiar with the specific product plans but said Xbox...
[May 30, 2002, 9:24]
Business Intelligence: No Vendor Can Do It All
News In a recent interview with ZDNet UK, Bernard Liautaud, the company's chief executive and founder, was adamant that his firm offers the full range of BI functions. Speaking on Monday at Gartner's Business Intelligence Summit in London, Howard...
[February 1, 2005, 13:30]
IT Firms Expand From PCs To Payroll
News The trend for computer services companies to move into back offices is accelerating in part because traditional business functions are now enmeshed in the computing backbone, said Rebecca Scholl, an analyst with research firm Gartner.
[January 14, 2003, 13:29]
No Hard Drive In Xbox Future?
News Jay Srivatsa, a senior analyst at research firm iSuppli, said the Xbox hard drive so far has been used mainly for ancillary functions like saving progress in a game, not to improve the way games work.
[February 26, 2004, 8:10]
'Megadeals' May Be On The Way Out
News Only a handful of services companies can handle an outsourcing contract covering a large variety of functions, he said. Mammoth contracts can also be challenging to manage, said Stan Lepeak, an analyst at research firm Meta Group.
[September 17, 2004, 10:20]
IBM Confronts Sun In Unix Face-off
News Unix servers, at the center of corporate computer networks for essential functions such as accounting and inventory control, are a huge part of the computing industry. With the [macroeconomic] picture having shrunk the available market.Hewlett...
[April 23, 2001, 12:45]
The Big Blue Boom: Betting On Services
News Worldwide spending on these outsourced functions rose about 8 percent last year to roughly $405bn and will increase to $682.5bn in 2008, according to research firm IDC. IBM is the dominant player," said Michael West, an analyst at research firm...
[June 15, 2004, 12:30]
Adobe E-form Will Target Microsoft
News The new Adobe software will also include simple tools for adding XML functions to existing PDF forms. Joshua Duhl, an analyst with research firm IDC, added that a PDF-based form will also appeal to organisations with a mixture of operating systems.
[July 15, 2003, 9:23]
Oracle To Debut Content Management Tools
News Pelz-Sharpe, who based his prediction on interviews with Oracle customers and employees, said the product will integrate enterprise content management (ECM) functions into Oracle's main suite of business products.
[September 17, 2004, 8:25]
Adobe Sharpens Focus On Photoshop Elements
News We're taking the core of the Photoshop engine and redesigning some of the features to make them easier to use and make the core functions more accessible," he said. Plus, we've added some functions Photoshop doesn't have.
[July 15, 2002, 14:48]
Satellite Broadband From Freebox
News Freebox plans to make money from content deals but IDC analyst Jason Armitage is not entirely convinced by Freebox' decision to offer so many functions on the box. James Eibisch, analyst with research firm IDC, believes satellite broadband services...
[November 3, 2000, 11:44]
'No Need To Test' Vista Beta One
News The analyst firm said the initial beta is likely to include long-awaited search and metadata tagging functions but will focus on the new application programming interface (API) set, known as WinFX, and other kernel-level changes.
[July 27, 2005, 16:50]
Smartphone Sales Show Astronomical Growth
News The global market for phones with PDA functions has tripled compared with last year, according to a report from market research firm IDC. With form factors and operating systems improving, this market is poised for steady growth," said Ross Sealfon...
[August 6, 2003, 11:30]
M-commerce Will Flop - Forrester Report
News Internet-connected PDAs and smart-phones that combine the functions of a wireless Web browser and an organiser are unlikely to catch on the way mobile phones have according to Forrester which predicts that sales in Europe will only reach 1.3m...
[September 6, 2000, 15:56]
Cut Costs With Satellite Technology
News Customer or partner training, B2B collaboration, earnings calls, financial services, product launches, and internal announcements are all mission-critical functions; they cannot be sacrificed in exchange for the next quarter's profit margins.
[August 15, 2003, 11:25]
Smartphones Miss Out On PDA Legacy
News Features phones are good enough for the majority of users," Brown said, adding that users rate the "aesthetics" of the device and multimedia features more highly than any data-centric functions included in high-end smartphone operating systems.
[August 24, 2006, 17:30]
RF Micro Shrinks Phone Chip
News That creates room for handset makes like Nokia or Motorola to increase the size of a phone's screen or add new functions such as the ability to watch videos. However, the biggest customer for RF Micro chips is Nokia, which represents about 65...
[August 13, 2002, 8:16]
Smart Device Sales Soar
News Gartner defines a smartphone as "a large-screen, voice-centric handheld device designed to offer complete phone functions while simultaneously functioning as a personal digital assistant", and a PDA as "a handheld computer that serves as an...
[October 9, 2006, 16:25]
Chip IP Market Sees A Boom
News Chip makers are moving toward integrating many functions on a single die -- the so called "system on a chip" -- and are finding it more convenient to buy functions from vendors such as ARM Holdings, MIPS and Rambus.
[June 12, 2001, 9:26]
Consulting Firms Anticipate Upswing
News Outsourcing refers to the farming-out of work such as information technology tasks or business functions such as customer service. First Boston analyst Dris Upitis wrote in a note. Things are looking up for companies that provide information...
[March 11, 2004, 8:55]
